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November 15, 2004, Monday

To the Editor: It's remarkable, watching a historian's mind at work. So you can imagine how I marveled reading ''Whose Side Is Bush On?,'' by Richard Norton Smith (Op-Ed, May 7), as he explained why George W. Bush is on the verge of presidential...

May 9, 2003, Friday

To the Editor: Richard Norton Smith (Op-Ed, Nov. 13) contends that Rutherford B. Hayes, who became president in 1877 by a narrow margin after the disputed 1876 election, established his administration's legitimacy by ''rising above the party...

November 16, 2000, Thursday

To the Editor: ''Silver Tongues and Sharp Elbows,'' Richard Norton Smith's Jan. 30 Op-Ed article about Adlai Stevenson, reminded me that the successful Democratic reform movement that toppled Tammany Hall in New York City was inspired and largely...

February 6, 2000, Sunday

To the Editor: ''Silver Tongues and Sharp Elbows'' (Op-Ed, Jan. 30), by Richard Norton Smith, underscores a basic contradiction of modern American politics. We expect candidates to be ruthless pit bulls to get elected -- and then to transform...